The Cimetière Saint-Pierre is the largest cemetery in the city of Marseille, Southern France.Boulaméry Odette, Le cimetière Saint-Pierre de Marseille, Marseille: Comité du Vieux-Marseille, 1999
Location It is located at number 380 on Rue Saint-Pierre in the 5th arrondissement of Marseille.Google MapYellow Pages
Overview The cemetery is the third largest cemetery in France after the Cimetière parisien de Pantin and the Cimetière parisien de Thiais, both of which are located in the Parisian region. It was established on 25 September 1855. However, it was only inaugurated on 30 December 1863.
Notable burials Artists Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), playwright Léo Nègre (1906–1998), songwriter Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), playwright Vincent Scotto (1874–1952), music composer Henri Verneuil (1920–2002), screenwriter Henri Alibert (1889–1951), actor Rellys (1905–1991), actor Gaby Deslys (1881–1920), singer Berthe Sylva (1885–1941), singer Ernest Reyer (1823–1909), music composer Émile Loubon (1809–1863), painter Pierre Ambrogiani (1906–1985), painter Valère Bernard (1860–1936), painter Charles Camoin (1879–1965), painter Antoine Marius Gianelli (1896–1983), painter Paul Gondard (1884–1953), sculptor Henri Christiné (1867–1941), music composer Andrée Turcy (1891–1974), actor Élie-Jean Vézien (1890–1982), sculptor Auguste Vimar (1851–1916), illustrator André Roussin (1911–1987), playwright Constant Roux (1869–1942), sculptor Antoine Sartorio (1885–1988), sculptor Louis Ducreux (1911–1992), screenwriter Antoine Ferrari (1910–1995), painter Milly Mathis (1901–1965), actor Alida Rouffe (1874–1949), actor Jean-Vital Jammes (1825–1893), opera singer René Sarvil (1901–1975), actor Gabriel Signoret (1878–1937), actor Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1824–1886), painter Alphonse Moutte (1840–1913), painter Dominique Piazza (1860–1941), illustrator
Politicians and military personnel Charles Armand Septime de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg (1801–1845), diplomat and politician Alphonse Esquiros (1812–1876), poet and politician Joseph Thierry (1857–1918), politician Albert Littolff (1911–1943), military pilot François Charles-Roux (1879–1961), diplomat Émile Muselier (1882–1965), resistant Germaine Poinso-Chapuis (1901–1981), politician Gaston Defferre (1910–1986), politician Fifi Turin (1913–1944), war resistor Georges N'Guyen Van Loc (1933–2008), intelligence chief
Sportspeople Gunnar Andersson (1928–1969), football player Raymond Grassi (1930–1953), boxer Luc Borrelli (1965–1999), football player Jean Bouin (1888–1914), runner Gustave Ganay (1892–1926), cyclist Henri Rougier (1876–1956), cyclist
Other Alexandre Chabanon (1873–1936), missionary in Indochina Gaétan Picon, inventor of Sirop de Picon Louis Noilly and Claudius Prat, founders of Noilly Prat Jules Charles-Roux (1841–1918), businessman and philanthropist Gustave Desplaces (1820–1869), engineer Pascal Coste (1787–1879), architect Nicolas Paquet (1831–1909), businessman Michel-Robert Penchaud (1772–1833), architect Eugène Rostand (1843–1915), economist Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy (1794–1878), academic Antoine Clot (1793–1868), physician and philanthropist Aimé Olivier de Sanderval (1840–1919), explorer Antoine-Fortuné Marion (1846–1900), botanist Jacques de Morgan (1857–1924), explorer
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